
Grow crisp, flavorful celery with this guide to planting, care, and harvest
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Types
- ‘Afina’ produces tall, slender stalks (up to 30 inches in height) and is a dark green, hardy, quick-growing variety (60 days to maturity).
- ‘Conquistador’ is tolerant of higher temps, water shortages, and average soil fertility.
- ‘Golden Self Blanching’ is an heirloom dwarf with stringless stalks. It’s a good choice for smaller gardens.
- ‘Utah 52-70R Improved’ is good for gardeners with limited space. It will only reach 18 inches tall and is disease resistant.
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Blanching helps to eliminate a bitter taste in celery. It coincidentally results in a pale green color. You can use almost anything that will wrap around the stalks and keep out light: paper such as brown paper bags (secure with old nylon stockings, string, vegetable wires—you know: the paper-coated wire sometimes used on supermarket lettuces), half-gallon milk cartons (tops and bottoms cut out), soil (pile dry soil around the stalks about one-third of the way up the stalks; this might be easier if you grow it in trenches; note too that soil, especially if it gets wet, could lead to rot). Whatever you use, leave the leaves exposed to sunlight. Salinas farmers might have other ideas…we hope they share them!
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Our Celery looks beautiful, but are hollow and earwigs are eating them. Please help
Hi Vela,
To get rid of (or at least reduce) earwig populations, sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the base of the celery stalks and the edge of your garden bed. Reapply after it rains. Also, clean up and remove all dead plant material from the garden because earwigs like hiding in rotting plants and wood. For more information, go here: https://www.almanac.com/pest/earwigs. Good luck!
Very informative - love the veggie but knew nothing about how and where it is grown.
Thank You
I cut the end of my store bought celery and put it in water and it now has roots and stalks. Can I plant in a pot on the window sill and cut the stocks and have continuous celery?
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How to do it??
my celery had already gone to seed will that ruin the stocks and when should I harvest the seeds for cooking...
Celery that has already gone to seed will be very bitter and tough, and therefore, pretty much inedible. There may be some stalks that haven’t yet flowered, and you could try harvesting these, but it may already be too late for most of the plant.
Wait until the seeds have dried on the plant and are able to fall off at the slightest touch. This is how you’ll know the seeds are fully matured and ready to be harvested.